By: Cale Baker Don’t you love how porn doesn’t require anything from you? We’re free to demand and consume without it ever asking for anything in return. Or at least that’s the lie we’re sold. Becoming a burden For as long as I can remember, I’ve struggled with feeling like a burden, and this…
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Why You Hate Repentance
By: Shane James O’Neill Our Rights Repentance. What a dirty word. In the West, we’re all about independence. It’s one of our greatest values. Words like obey, submit, apologize, and repent, strike against our notions of independence. Autonomy is our entitlement, our privilege. We get to live however we want, and there’s hell to…
Burning Porn to the Ground
By: Shane James O’Neill Deuteronomy 7:3-4 Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons, for they will turn your children away from following me to serve other gods … Loving My Lust Many times in the past I told myself that pornography and promiscuous…
How to Amputate Porn From Your Life
By: Shane James O’Neill An Adolescent Addiction I’ve struggled with pornography throughout the entirety of my adult life. If I’m being honest, I struggled with it even before then, before my body was able to respond to the images and intimacy before me. There are many things that have carried me along on my…
Christian Violence
By: Victor Stanely Jr. and Marcia Smith The Violent Christian Pacifist “Murder is a tough thing to digest, it’s a slow process, and I ain’t got nothin’ but time…” These words are uttered by Jay-Z on the song Dead President II. The words capture the thinking of a certain type of person whom I like…
Why Does Marriage Matter?
By: Allie Joy Kapus Getting Marriage Right If I’m being completely honest, I put off writing this part of the series. I knew that I would be writing about God’s definition for the marriage covenant, and since I write and talk about that so often, I figured I could just write the post pretty…
The Links Between Porn and Sex Trafficking
By: Shane James O’Neill A significant part of combating pornography is through awareness. People generally think porn isn’t an issue and that it doesn’t do any harm. But if people were seriously suffering from our actions, wouldn’t you want to know? My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from…
What Research Says About Porn and Relationships
By: Shane James O’Neill As Christians, we’re invited to explore the world, including what secular research provides. As the paraphrased quote from St. Augustine goes: All truth is God’s truth. So what does the secular research tell us about pornography and relationships? What can we learn and how can that learning help us better marvel,…
3 Ways the Gospel Speaks Into Your Sexual Struggle
By: Shane James O’Neill The gospel does a lot. The Gospel has given explanation and meaning to our origin and our history, and it gives an incredible hope of restoration for the future. In this massive work, the gospel also speaks immediately into our lives. Into my life, and into yours. That’s important. If…
Jesus, Your Body, and 5 Dead Porn Stars
By: Shane James O’Neill 5 young female porn stars have died in the last 3 months. All of them from self-inflicted homicides, through overdosing on drugs or suicide. But why do porn stars and other sex workers have such an incredibly high suicide rate? After all, they make good money and their job is…
3 Ways to Heal From Porn
By: Shane James O’Neill Have you or someone you care about ever been damaged by the scars of pornography? It isn’t enough to say that porn just affects our bodies: pornography impacts our relationships, our bodies, and our imaginations. Here are 3 practices that will help to heal you from pornography by allowing you…
Jesus and Porn
By: Josh When 97% of men have viewed pornography: I hope this story gives you light in your situation and a picture into our Christian culture. My Early Years I was born and raised in a Christian home in a small town in Northern Michigan. Everybody knew everybody, and everything was everyone’s business. I…
Lust and The Holidays
By: Shane James O’Neill provEn: Eternal In Perspective When it comes to purity there are two ways we should always keep perspective: You are not the center of eternity Eternity is on your side The Holiday Season Holiday seasons are a unique time in the purity calendar (that’s not an actual calendar, in case…
#MeToo
By: Lexie Smith What’s happening If you’ve been on social media this week, you will have seen your feed filled with posts including a hashtag #MeToo. It all came about when actress Alyssa Milano sent out a tweet. It’s an awareness campaign to illustrate how many people have been sexually assaulted. The numbers are overwhelming….
How Should Husbands Love Their Wives?
By: Ricky Bailey Understanding Culture Every culture has a narrative. I don’t just mean stories people use to try and make sense of life, but a script that has been written for the culture, and the people live it out nearly exactly. Our culture is no different. We have been sold a story of…
3 Ways Pornography Affects Your Relationship with God
One of our recent surveys revealed that over half of Christian men view pornography at least once per month. This statistic is extremely concerning for leaders, for wives, girlfriends, parents, and men. To help explain why this shift is so important, Christian men must first understand how it impacts their relationship with their Creator. After…